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Several years ago, I bought a smartphone and soon came to love it. Being able to send an e-mail, look up a fact, or buy something no matter where I was meant a previously unimaginable gain in productivity. Can Brain Science Help Us Break Bad Habits? | The New Yorker

Several years ago, I bought a smartphone and soon came to love it. Being able to send an e-mail, look up a fact, or buy something no matter where I was meant a previously unimaginable gain in productivity. Can Brain Science Help Us Break Bad Habits? | The New Yorker

In Northern California, the fires have come again, sending hundreds of thousands fleeing by mandate. California's Fires and PG&E's Toxic Debt - The Atlantic

Your hometown feels special, no matter how many miles, years, or experiences are put between you and your birthplace. Hundreds of thousands of years separate modern humans from our own ancestral hometown, so much so that we’ve never been sure exactly where it was. Ancient humans: Scientists pinpoint humanity's ancestral hometown | Inverse

In Northern California, the fires have come again, sending hundreds of thousands fleeing by mandate. California's Fires and PG&E's Toxic Debt - The Atlantic

I knew from a young age that I wanted to join the CIA. No, not the Central Intelligence Agency — the Culinary Institute of America, one of the world’s premiere culinary colleges. I spent two years studying a wide range of subjects from basic knife skills to butchery lessons. 9 Important Cooking School Lessons | Kitchn

Several years ago, I bought a smartphone and soon came to love it. Being able to send an e-mail, look up a fact, or buy something no matter where I was meant a previously unimaginable gain in productivity. Can Brain Science Help Us Break Bad Habits? | The New Yorker

Your hometown feels special, no matter how many miles, years, or experiences are put between you and your birthplace. Hundreds of thousands of years separate modern humans from our own ancestral hometown, so much so that we’ve never been sure exactly where it was. Ancient humans: Scientists pinpoint humanity's ancestral hometown | Inverse

In Northern California, the fires have come again, sending hundreds of thousands fleeing by mandate. California's Fires and PG&E's Toxic Debt - The Atlantic

In Northern California, the fires have come again, sending hundreds of thousands fleeing by mandate. California's Fires and PG&E's Toxic Debt - The Atlantic

Your hometown feels special, no matter how many miles, years, or experiences are put between you and your birthplace. Hundreds of thousands of years separate modern humans from our own ancestral hometown, so much so that we’ve never been sure exactly where it was. Ancient humans: Scientists pinpoint humanity's ancestral hometown | Inverse

In Northern California, the fires have come again, sending hundreds of thousands fleeing by mandate. California's Fires and PG&E's Toxic Debt - The Atlantic

Your hometown feels special, no matter how many miles, years, or experiences are put between you and your birthplace. Hundreds of thousands of years separate modern humans from our own ancestral hometown, so much so that we’ve never been sure exactly where it was. Ancient humans: Scientists pinpoint humanity's ancestral hometown | Inverse

The three-body problem, one of the most notoriously complex calculations in physics, may have met its match in artificial intelligence: a new neural network promises to find solutions up to 100 million times faster than existing techniques. New Neural Network Could Solve The Three-Body Problem 100 Million Times Fas

If there's one thing you do want to catch from a trip to your doctor, it's her optimism. A new study, published Monday in the journal Nature Human Behavior, finds that patients can pick up on subtle facial cues from doctors that reveal the doctor's belief in how effective a treatment will be. Doctors' Expectations Make Pain Treatments More Effective, Research Finds :

Organic practices can reduce climate pollution produced directly from farming – which would be fantastic if they didn’t also require more land to produce the same amount of food. Sorry—organic farming is actually worse for climate change - MIT Technology

Steve Jobs' pitch for the original iPhone in 2007 as a phone, music player and internet communicator was a landmark moment in the tech world. iPhone, Galaxy S, Pixel: How smartphones evolved to dominate your life - CN

If you’re looking to knock back a pint in the UK, there’s a good chance you’ll wander into a watering hole named the Red Lion — the the UK’s most popular pub name. Ye Olde Mad-Lib Pub Crawl Generator

For engineers, the question of whether to store information in analog or discrete form is easy to answer. Discrete data storage has clear advantages, not least of which is that it is much more robust against degradation. Engineers have exploited this property. Does the brain store information in discrete or analog form? - MIT Technolo

Estimated reading time: 15 minutes. I’m an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That’s why I spent the last three years as a Design Ethicist at Google caring about how to design things in a way that defends a billion people’s minds from getting hijacked. How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Magician and Google Design E

Estimated reading time: 15 minutes. I’m an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That’s why I spent the last three years as a Design Ethicist at Google caring about how to design things in a way that defends a billion people’s minds from getting hijacked. How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Magician and Google Design E

Estimated reading time: 15 minutes. I’m an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That’s why I spent the last three years as a Design Ethicist at Google caring about how to design things in a way that defends a billion people’s minds from getting hijacked. How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Magician and Google Design E

Estimated reading time: 15 minutes. I’m an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That’s why I spent the last three years as a Design Ethicist at Google caring about how to design things in a way that defends a billion people’s minds from getting hijacked. How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Magician and Google Design E

For engineers, the question of whether to store information in analog or discrete form is easy to answer. Discrete data storage has clear advantages, not least of which is that it is much more robust against degradation. Engineers have exploited this property. Does the brain store information in discrete or analog form? - MIT Technolo

Estimated reading time: 15 minutes. I’m an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That’s why I spent the last three years as a Design Ethicist at Google caring about how to design things in a way that defends a billion people’s minds from getting hijacked. How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Magician and Google Design E

For engineers, the question of whether to store information in analog or discrete form is easy to answer. Discrete data storage has clear advantages, not least of which is that it is much more robust against degradation. Engineers have exploited this property. Does the brain store information in discrete or analog form? - MIT Technolo

For engineers, the question of whether to store information in analog or discrete form is easy to answer. Discrete data storage has clear advantages, not least of which is that it is much more robust against degradation. Engineers have exploited this property. Does the brain store information in discrete or analog form? - MIT Technolo

Steve Jobs' pitch for the original iPhone in 2007 as a phone, music player and internet communicator was a landmark moment in the tech world. iPhone, Galaxy S, Pixel: How smartphones evolved to dominate your life - CN

If there's one thing you do want to catch from a trip to your doctor, it's her optimism. A new study, published Monday in the journal Nature Human Behavior, finds that patients can pick up on subtle facial cues from doctors that reveal the doctor's belief in how effective a treatment will be. Doctors' Expectations Make Pain Treatments More Effective, Research Finds :

The explosive event? The duo showed that two tiny particles known as bottom quarks could theoretically fuse together in a powerful flash. The result: a larger subatomic particle, a second, spare particle known as a nucleon, and a whole mess of energy spilling out into the universe. The Subatomic Discovery That Physicists Considered Keeping Secret - Scienti

Happy National Ampersand Day! The symbol we know as the ampersand first appeared in some graffiti on a Pompeian wall around the first century CE. Where Did The Ampersand Symbol Come From? | Mental Floss

The United States has been consistently rated as the most generous (per capita) country over the course of the last decade. But that recognition comes with a pretty large asterisk. In recent years the number of people who report giving money to charity annually has been declining. The World Giving Index: the U.S. is most generous—but slipping

Bertrand Russell was a giant of the twentieth century. Recognized as one of the founders of modern analytical philosophy, his work has significantly influenced mathematics, logic, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and computer science.⁣⁣ Bertrand Russell On Why Philosophy Matters | Philosophy Break

From grade school onward, complex multiplication has been a headache. How to Multiply Big Numbers | Faster Way to Multiply | Math Tips

Dogs tend to live in the moment, accepting each treat, snuggle, or toss of the tennis ball as the whole reason for their existence with a charming singlemindedness. Yet, their understanding of time can be complex. Dogs Smell Passage of Time | The Bark

Er was eens een 16-jarige jongen uit Delft die uit duiken ging voor de Griekse kust. Hij trof een zee met meer plastic dan beestjes en dacht: kan iemand dit niet even opruimen?  Weet je wat? Boyan Slat ging het zelf wel doen. De plasticvanger van Boyan Slat: ineffectief, peperduur en mogelijk een ram

What's the first thing people look for when scanning a job ad? Usually, it's whether they have the required experience to apply. Most of us know that for our resume to even get a look we must demonstrate we've done similar work before. Review of 81 Studies: Experience Is Useless for Predicting a New Hire's Per

Back in 2009, Facebook launched a world-changing piece of code—the “like” button. “Like” was the brainchild of several programmers and designers, including Leah Pearlman and Justin Rosenstein. The lines of code that changed everything.

Parents and teachers want children to grow up to be happy and successful. In other words, we want children to thrive. As adults, we often think success will make us happy. Happier Babies Have an Edge - Scientific American Blog Network

“Paratopic is a game literally about the horror of being poor,” Doc Burford, writer and designer of the IGF-winning title, tells me over the phone. Indie game makers open up about the money they actually make - The Verge

It's 1502 A.D. and Sultan Bayezid II sends out a request for bids: He wants someone to build an enormous bridge, spanning the Golden Horn and connecting Istanbul to neighboring Galata. If you're Leonardo da Vinci, you don't have modern rebar or asphalt to rely on. Da Vinci bridge design holds up even after 500 years, MIT proves - CNET

Between nuclear weapons, climate disaster, and tech bros' unbridled thirst for control over our lives, it sure does feel like the end is approaching "nigh" status. 'Collapse OS' Is an Open Source Operating System for the Post-Apocalypse -

On the heels of last week’s announcement that WP Engine became the first WordPress Digital Experience Platform (DXP) to offer Google’s latest Compute-Optimized Virtual Machines (VM) (C2), we wanted to showcase some early, real-world results from customer sites that are already seeing massive per Early, Real-World Results from WP Engine’s New Google Compute-Optimized Inf

Docker, the technology, is the poster child for containers. But it appears Docker, the business, is in trouble. Docker is in deep trouble | ZDNet

Babies in the womb have extra lizard-like muscles in their hands that most will lose before they are born, medical scans reveal. They are probably one of the oldest, albeit fleeting, remnants of evolution seen in humans yet, biologists say, in the journal Development. Babies in the womb have lizard-like hand muscles - BBC News

China Grew Two Cotton Leaves On The Moon IEEE Spectrum - IEEE Spectrum

We are in the middle of a wave of interesting new productivity software startups - there are dozens of companies that remix some combination of lists, tables, charts, tasks, notes, light-weight databases, forms, and some kind of collaboration, chat or information-sharing. New Productivity — Benedict Evans